Panicum. tkiandria digynia. 315 



their sheaths, which are shorter than the joints, Famcle compos- 

 ed of short expanding, secund, spiked-racemes. i'7oa'e;'s polygamous. 



Introduced into the Botanic Garden from the MauritiuG, by Cap- 

 tain Tenuant, in 1802. 



Culms creeping, throwing out numerous strong roots from the 

 joints; h ngth from three to six feet. — Leaves lanceolate, plaited, 

 hairy ; about six iuches long, by one broad. — Sheaihs shorter than 

 the joints, very hairy. — Pa/«'cZe oblong, smooth, composed of some- 

 what compound, secund, spiked-racemes, with here and there an 

 arista-like coloured bristle —Ct//yx three-valved, smooth, from 

 three to live-nerved.— Co/o/ tluee-valved, two-tlowered ; tlie exte- 

 rior floret one-valved and male. Seed transversely rugose. 



Obs. In the foliage this is perfectly like my P. nervosum and jyli- 

 catum. 



52. P. monicnum. R. 



Culms erect, smooth, from three to four feet high. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate, unequally divided by the nerve. Panicle oblong; ramrfi- 

 caiions capillary, straight. Corol two-valved ; Seed smooth, oval, 

 three-nerved on the back. 



A native of the Circar mountains. 



Root fibrous, from a ligneous perenniaV head. — Culms erect, 



smooth, of a firm woody texture, as thick as a crow quill, and three 



to four feet high. — Leaves lanceolate, large, beautifully striated 



lengthways, somewhat hairy, lower margins next the mouths of the 



sheath ciliate ; the nerve divides the leaf unequally, which is au 



uncommon circumstance in grasses. — Panicle linear, oblong, from 



twelve to eighteen inches long, composed of straight, sub-erect, 



capillary ramifications. — JYoK'i'rs small, oval, remote. — Calyx ns in 



the genus. — Coro/ as in the family ; this is one of the few instances 



of the want of a male or neuter floret. — Seed smoolli, brown, with 



three strices. 



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